The Last Blasket King: Padraig O Cathain, an Ri
Hayes, Gerald / Kane, Eliza There is something magical about the notion of a king on a small isolated island. Few would look at the ruins on the Great Blasket and imagine a king had lived there. Yet the King was a very forceful presence on this island. The last was Padraig O Cathain, 'Peats Mhici, ' who served for about twenty-five years until his death in 1929.